[rohrpost] Save Johanessburg Biennial

[Hans-Christian Dany <hcdany@compuserve.com> (by way of Tilman Baumgaertel <tilman_baumgaertel@csi.com>)]

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Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: RV: Please help us to save the Johannesburg
Biennial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




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> >From: Ines Raphaelian <raphaelian@terra.com.br>

> >To: aberetta@memorial.org.br

> >Subject: Please help us to save the Johannesburg

Biennial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

> >Date: 17 de jun de 2000 de21:12

> >

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> > Dear Colleagues

> > When Ivo Mesquita was recently fired from the Sao Paulo Bienal for no

> > apparent reason it was the efforts of the global art community that made

> > the bureaucrats realise the consequences and reconsider their decision.

> > There is sadly a precedent that few are aware of and even fewer speak

> > of. In 1997 following the international acclaim and success of the 2nd

> > Johannesburg Biennial, artistic director Okwui Enwezor and key members

> > of his team were fired without reason, in addition to which the

> > Johannesburg City council decided to close the exhibition a month

> > earlier than had been scheduled. As a result of the efforts of a few

> > individuals the exhibition managed to stay open as scheduled but the

> > biennial has not survived.

> > More than 3 years has since passed and every effort to begin the process

> > that would culminate in the third Johannesburg Biennial has failed. As

> > it stands there will never be another Johannesburg Biennial ever again.

> > Neither the Johannesburg City Council nor the National Government's

> > Department of Arts and Culture have given any reasons for this

> > cancellation. Key amongst the reasons inferred is that the Biennial is

> > not perceived as being important to either South Africa or to the

> > international art community.

> > You can make a difference! If the South African government is made aware

> > of the important role this exhibition plays in life of every african

> > artist as well as the significance it has for the international art

> > community it will have no option but to change its policy. If the

> > Johannesburg City Council is made to realise how this single exhibition

> > has changed the lives and careers of so many key South African artists,

> > both black and white, then perhaps they would change the minds as to its

> > vital importance. As it stands the politicians are listening to the

> > voices of a few individuals in whose interests its lies that the

> > exhibition remain canceled forever. Such an important exhibition should

> > not get caught up in personal politics and hidden agendas.

> > Please add your name to the list below and email it to Brigitte

> > Mabandla,  the deputy minister of arts and culture

> > <adm03@acts3.wcape.gov.za> and <min07@dacst3.wcape.gov.za>asking that

> > the Johannesburg Biennial be reinstated. If  the South African

> > government is made aware of the importance this exhibition they will

> > have no option but to  begin the process once again. Please now do for

> > Johannesburg, for South Africa and  for the entire African continent

> > what you have done for Sao Paulo:

> > PLEASE HELP THE JOHANNESBURG BIENNIAL TO SURVIVE BY ADDING YOUR NAME AND

> > TITLE TO THIS LIST AND PASS IT ALONG TO YOUR COLLEAGUES. ONCE IT REACHES

> > 50 NAMES PLEASE SEND IT ON TO:

> > <adm03@acts3.wcape.gov.za> and  <min07@dacst3.wcape.gov.za> or fax it to

> > +27-21- 455 6241:2:3:4:5:

> >

> > 1 - Valeria Piccoli, Assistant Curator, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo

> > 2 - Veronica Cordeiro, Curatorial Assistant, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo

> > 3 - Ana Paula Cohen, Curatorial Assistant, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo

> > 4 - Carla Zaccagnini, Artist, Curatorial Assistant, XXV Bienal de Sao

Paulo

> > 5 - Adriano Pedrosa, Associate Curator, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo

> > 6 - Ivo Mesquita, Chief Curator, XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo

> > 7-  Martin Grossmann, Vice Director Museu de Arte Contemporanea-USP

> > 8 - Inês Raphaelian, São Paulo, Artist, Independent Curator

> > 9 - Regina Silveira, São Paulo, Artist

     10- Ricardo Ribenboim, Artist

     11- Antonio Zaya, Girona,Spain,Director Atlantica. >>
    12-Tania Bruguera, Artist
13 - Barry Schwabsky, art critic (Artforum, Art in America, Art/Text, etc.)

14. John Peter Nilsson, editor, NU:The Nordic Art Review

15. Hans-Christian Dany, artist. 




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